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davepalmerusask.bsky.social
Organic chemist, enzymologist, professor, cat dad. PEI ➡️ Queen's U ➡️ UIUC ➡️ USask. 🇨🇦✌️🙂 (he/him)
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Doing the meme 😁

Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.

I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger. The gang:

Junior grackle needs breakfast!!! 🪶 #birds

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover was not a fun date movie.

So you figured out how to levitate your orb, but are you an Erlenmeyer flask on the drying rack, or an Erlenmeyer flask on the lab bench?

Fun paper for discussion! Typical Electron-Withdrawing Groups Are ortho, meta-Directors Rather than meta-Directors in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution | The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Forever a chemist. My 90-year-old dad in his retirement home measures his drinks with this. 🤷‍♂️🧪🥃😅

The question has been answered! Verdict: fancy

Such a treat to meet @racicotleanne.bsky.social today, and hear about her amazing efforts to make her laboratories green and sustainable. 😊

Seeing lots of friends at #CSC2025, and very happy to run into @miguelsoto.bsky.social, who will be joining the faculty of the Chemistry department @usask.bsky.social in two weeks!

I am absolutely loving that the Pride Mixer @csc2025.bsky.social isn't a ticketed event. It's open to all. 🥰 Thank you, Gilead. And Curtis and Zhongxin!

Happy Father’s Day

We have an exciting announcement! ACS Green Chemistry Institute has partnered with the CIC Green Division to create the ACS Green Chemistry Student Travel Award, which will be awarded for the first time at CSC x2026. More information will be coming this summer, stay tuned! #chemsky

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Fuzzy tweens! 🪶